Book lovers are returning to stores for personalised service – and bookshop smell
Lovers of literature tell
Of the paperback’s enticing smell
So those who trade books
Don’t rely on their looks
When hoping a volume will sell
Tag Archives: A Limerick A Day
New Zealand foreign minister Nanaia Mahuta (above) says she she fears a ‘storm’ of anger from China amid rising Pacific-Asia tensions
China claims to be a nation
That just wants more cooperation
To make a big pie
And cannot see why
New Zealanders show hesitation
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An EU rights body has claimed Ireland has one of the highest rates of people being stopped by the police in the European Union
If you’re popping out to the shop
In Ireland, it’s a likely a cop
All dressed up in blue
With little to do
Will fill time by making you stop
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancée Carrie Symonds will “celebrate their wedding” next Summer
Next year we’ll all celebrate when
Boris gets married again
On a day full of glee
To wife number three
For he is the greatest of men
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Allen Minish, who was surveying land in a distant, wooded space of Alaska, was mauled by a giant brown bear and is fortunate to have escaped with his life
Be careful in locations where
There’s a chance you might meet a brown bear
You won’t like it all all
When they start to maul
But thankfully round here they’re rare
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The SEG Plaza (above), one of China’s tallest buildings, first began shaking on Tuesday afternoon, prompting an evacuation of people inside
In Shenzhen some folk got a shock
When their skyscraper started to rock
But the government found
That the building’s quite sound
Though they need some more time to take stock
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New York Attorney general Letitia James has been investigating whether the Trump Organisation falsely reported property values to secure loans and obtain tax benefits
The office of New York’s AG
Have said that from what they can see
The business of Don
Has been carried on
Like that of a crime family
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Australian boffins using using ‘citizen science observations’ estimate there are about 50 billion individual birds in the world
Some scientists put out the word
They wanted to count every bird
And it adds up to fifty
Billion, that’s nifty
But it strikes me as rather absurd
The 99 ice cream is at risk due to a Cadbury’s Flake drought
At long last you can finally take
A very well earned seaside break
You may even dream
Of eating ice cream
But hard luck: there’s a shortage of Flake
Minister for Tourism Catherine Martin is to recommend the removal of restrictions on UK visitors which will allow residents of the Republic to travel freely to Britain
Of late there has not been a way
To travel on a holiday
But you could have mighty
Craic over in Blighty
Before long, so the government say